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Oh, the consequences are intended...
... but with any luck will be found illegal by the courts. The DMCA is what it looks like, authorization for the empowering of content companies.


About the Constitution's endorsement of patents:
Progress in Adam Smith's sense comes about because people pursue their own advantage by making life better, faster, cheaper for others. The profit motive is harnessed for social goods. Patent laws are not encouragement to philosophers or those who make grand scientific discoveries, they're to put money in the pockets of inventors.

So far as I know, Thomas Jefferson was the last person in the patent office to spend a great deal of time worrying whether an invention was important enough to humanity. If it makes a lot of money, something important happened.
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Bush at his best...  Scrat | 05/03/05
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Are we really?  Patrick Jones | 05/03/05
Europe, for example, is far more stagnant.  Anton Philidor | 05/03/05
Does it work?  voska | 05/03/05
Never happen  tic swayback | 05/03/05
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And at work you only have one boss. Think about it.  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/03/05
And how much do you owe your boss?  B.O.F.H. | 05/03/05
So what is the solution  FilledOut | 05/03/05
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India not following either  tic swayback | 05/03/05
First principle flops.  Anton Philidor | 05/03/05
IP is for societies gain  voska | 05/03/05
Money gained on the status quo...  Anton Philidor | 05/03/05
Did you hear?  voska | 05/03/05
Read the Constitution  tic swayback | 05/03/05
Oh, the consequences are intended...  Anton Philidor | 05/03/05
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You Bad Chinese people  Roger Ramjet | 05/03/05
Glimpse of the future  tic swayback | 05/03/05
Long over due...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/03/05
What action?  tic swayback | 05/03/05
Maybe they will borrow more money?  B.O.F.H. | 05/03/05
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